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JOTJBNAL OP HOETICULTUEE AND COTTAGE GAKDENER. 



November 3, 18C3. 



The gai-den-house, in the Elizabethan style, is, for size, 

 conveniences, and arrangements, what it ought to be for 

 Buch a place. It is so situated that some windows will 

 receive the full rays of the sun dming the day — a great 

 matter so far as health and cheerfulness ai'e concerned. 

 The sight of such a home ought to lead to the thorough 

 relinquishing of aU back sheds as residences, either for gar- 

 deners or their assistants. No rooms can be cheerful into 



TKENTHAM. 



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which the rays of the sun never penetrate. The walls 'ai-e 



chiefly clothed with the Virginian Creeper. As already in- 

 timated, a wide piece of gravel with I\'y-beds separates the 

 house from the range of houses to the west with its back 

 buildings, the nearest of wliich to the house is the business 

 ofBce, followed by fruit-rooms, root-rooms, assistant gar- 

 deners' rooms, washing and bath-room, furnished with hot 

 and cold water, &c. 



Almost in a line with an eastern window of the dwelling- 

 house is the back range of the upright Trentham-case, and 

 fax-ther southward is the front range. The space between 

 these ranges on the west side, next the garden-house, is 

 filled-in with a colonnade of three elegant stone or com- 

 position arches, and on a square block of stone is inscribed 

 the name of Mr. Fleming, with the date of 1841, placed there 

 by order of the late Duke, as a majk of respect and acknow- 

 ledgment of the services of him, who for so long a period 

 had been the presiding genius that devised and conducted 

 80 many improvements to such a successful termination. 

 Between this colonnade of arches and the line of the garden- 

 house, is a raised oblong bed filled chiefly with the white 

 and purple Zelinda and the YeUow Titian Dahlias, all in 

 bands and in full and massive bloom, and on a bank close at 

 hand was a dazzling mass of the Saponaria calabrica, which is 

 never more at home than when clambering over or dangling 

 from a knoll. Here, too, was a cluster of raised Ivy-beds, 

 the largest and highest in the centre, and surrounded with 

 less ones, and all filled with Geraniums and centered with 

 fine Humeas. Some of these beds appear in the engraving 

 of the garden-house, close to which, after looking for each 

 other in the early morning, we fixethad the pleasureof shaking 



hands with our new friend Mr. Henderson, and receiving from 

 him such an amount of courtesy and kindness as we could 

 only barely expect from one, with whom in our boyish days 

 " we had run about the braes," paidled in the same burn, 

 knew all the same wondi'ous secrets about bu-d"s nests, and 

 quarrelled and fought only the more to cement our friend- 

 ship as we caiTied our satchels to the same school. 



Between that bank and beds on tlie east, and the end of 

 the forcing-houses on the west, the main walk, from north 

 to south, crosses the garden in a lino with the garden- 

 house porch ; that walk extending beyond the south wall 

 into what is called the nursery grounds, but which is the 

 position for the famed ribbon-borders, &c., of which more 

 anon. The sides of this walk are bordered with Ivy, about 

 a foot in height, and rather more in width, which looked 

 extremely well, especially as it was not close -trimmed. The 

 sides beyond the Ivy were margined with Musk, Forget-me- 

 not, Asters, &c., but the size of the fruit trees woiild prevent, 

 if there were not other reason.'?, the close ribboning which 

 they at one time received. Even now the quantity of bed- 

 ding plants used must be most enormous. The sides of 

 these walks are plant<>d with Pear and Apple trees, trained 

 \imbrella or bell-shaped, and pyramidal or cylindrical-shaped 



